Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.